During the first 11 months of 2006, net imports grew by 21 percent to $ 1. 95 billion, while exports stood at $ 895 million, up 0. 3 percent from the same period in 2005.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

During the first 11 months of 2006, U. S .- Armenian trade totaled $ 152. 6 million.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

The Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

Deliveries started in 2006 with the first aircraft arriving in October 2006.

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In 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Bishop of Nevada, became the first woman to become the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

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On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

In January 2006 Chileans elected their first woman president, Michelle Bachelet, of the Socialist Party.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

By late 2006, HP had retook the # 1 sales position of PCs from Dell, which struggled with missed estimates and poor quality, and has held that rank ever since.

* According to an IDC paper sponsored by EMC Corporation, 161 exabytes of data were created in 2006, " 3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written ," with the number expected to hit 988 exabytes in 2010.

A prior study by the FSTA showed 19. 4 million people age 12 and above in the U. S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2006 and 34. 5 million people had ever played fantasy sports.

In May 2006, Wray became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honored by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

In 2003 and 2006 respectively, Bryan Sykes and Stephen Oppenheimer both championed the idea of continuity ever since the Mesolithic period, with a substantial input from the East during the Neolithic.

In 2006 he designed his first ever spa, the Bergoase Spa in Arosa, Switzerland.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

The largest reciprocating engine in production at present, but not the largest ever built, is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine of 2006 built by Japan ’ s Diesel United, Ltd.

After winning re-election in December 2006, Chávez said, " Now more than ever, I am obliged to move Venezuela's path towards socialism.

* October 2006: Scientists at Newcastle University in England create the first ever artificial liver cells using umbilical cord blood stem cells.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association named Salò the 65th scariest film ever made.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

The listing of " the best holes ever designed by Augusta National architect Alister MacKenzie " is featured in SI ’ s Golf Plus special edition previewing the Masters on April 4, 2006.

In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites " The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country.

After being placed on the list of endangered World Heritage Sites in 2006, the city lost the title in June 2009, due to the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke, making it only the second ever World Heritage Site to be removed from the register.

Image of the largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded ( September 2006 ), over the Southern pole

Backstage at the 2006 GMA Awards, Jars of Clay labeled the album their first ever rock record.

* On February 18, 2006, an Australian built Mack truck with 112 semi-trailers, and long, pulled the load to recapture the record for the longest road train ( multiple loaded trailers ) ever pulled with a single prime mover.

In 2006, Josie Carroll became the first woman trainer to ever win the Queen's Plate.

Until the Avalanche's 2006 – 2007 season, no team in the history of the NHL had ever made it to 95 points without earning a spot in the playoffs.

During the 2006 offseason, the Pistons offered Ben Wallace a four-year, $ 48 million contract which would have made him the highest-paid Piston ever.